Road Safety Bikeability Officer | Full time | Road Safety Team | Preston, Lancashire

Salary 25,989 -28,142 per annum | 37 hours per week | Permanent, Full time | Road Safety Team | Preston, Lancashire,

Lancashire County Council's Road Safety Team are looking for an exceptional new team member to join and support a multi-disciplinary team working with partners and colleagues to support make Lancashire roads safer.

We serve a population of 1.25 million living in cities, towns and rural villages with a diverse geography and demographic providing a wide variety of road safety challenges. 

This is an excellent opportunity to make a difference and to develop your career, and a wide range of training and development opportunities will be provided.

The Road Safety Bikeability Officer will be based within the Road Safety Team, The Road Safety Bikeability Officer will support the commissioning of Bikeability cycle training across Lancashire. With the aim of preventing road casualties in Lancashire and improving road safety for children who travel on our highway network. Bikeability is the government’s national cycle training programme. It helps you learn practical skills and understand how to cycle on today’s roads. Bikeability gives everyone the confidence to cycle and enjoy this skill for life. 

The successful candidates will use their administration business skills to ensure that our road safety work is effectively supported to maximise the potential to reduce collisions, injuries, and fatalities on the roads in Lancashire.

Lancashire is a vibrant and striking place to live and work with excellent transport links to other parts of the UK, and easy access to airports in the NW region. The county is a key region linking industry and innovation to strong local heritage, an area of outstanding beauty and popular coastal areas. The large cities of Manchester and Liverpool and the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales National Parks are on our doorstep. 

Staff wellbeing and work-life balance are important to us, and these are just some of the benefits you can enjoy working for Lancashire County Council:

There's fabulous flexibility and the opportunity to create the work life balance you'll love with 26 days of annual leave going up to 32 days plus bank holidays, 2 additional days at Christmas and then further days that can be purchased too – we have a generous Local Government pension with shared AVC's available then a benefits package which has everything from dog care to day care, holidays at home or abroad, long service awards, Medicash, inclusivity support groups, discounts on white goods and electronics, cycle to work schemes, salary sacrifice car lease schemes, eye tests and prescription support plus much more.

• For an informal discussion, please contact:
• Road Safety Team Leaders email: Deborah.Hall@lancashire.gov.uk 
• Telephone: 01772 539576

PLEASE NOTE: Any attached CV's must clearly address how the candidate specifically meets the essential & desirable criteria on the role profile.  

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